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Jean-Baptiste Biot

1774 to 1862 6 documented presences 5 places

Quo Fuit places 6 dated presences for Jean-Baptiste Biot across 5 places, from 1774 to 1862. Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.

Jean-Baptiste Biot (21 April 1774 – 3 February 1862) was a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician who co-discovered the Biot–Savart law of magnetostatics with Félix Savart, established the reality of meteorites, made an early balloon flight, and studied the polarization of light.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Jean-Baptiste Biot was documented, and when

21 April 1774exact date
Parisattested “Jean-Baptiste Biot was born in Paris on 21 April 1774 the son of Joseph Biot, a treasury official.” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot
1797year
Beauvaisattested “Biot served in the artillery before he was appointed professor of mathematics at Beauvais in 1797.” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot
1800year
Collège de Franceattested “He later went on to become a professor of physics at the Collège de France around 1800, and three years later was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences.” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot
1800year
Collattested “He later went on to become a professor of physics at the Collège de France around 1800, and three years later was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences.” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot
1803year
L'Aigleattested “Prior to Biot's thorough investigation of the meteorites that fell near l'Aigle, France in 1803, very few truly believed that rocks found on Earth could have extraterrestrial origins.” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot
3 February 1862exact date
Parisattested “He died in Paris on 3 February 1862.” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot

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Places Jean-Baptiste Biot is documented in

Paris2 presences · 1774 to 1862Coll1 presence · 1800Collège de France1 presence · 1800
Beauvais1 presence · 1797
L'Aigle1 presence · 1803

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1803year
Normandymentioned “In 1803 Biot was sent by the Académie française to report back on 3000 meteorites that fell on L'Aigle, in Normandy, France (see L'Aigle (meteorite)).” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot
August 1806month
Francementioned “In August 1806, he was commissioned by the Bureau des Longitudes, together with François Arago, to continue the measurement of a meridian arc in France and Spain begun by Delambre and Méchain (the meridian arc of Delambre and Méchain).” source: Wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot

Documented at the same place, the same year

Jérôme BonaparteIrish College in Paris · 1800Élisabeth Vigée Le BrunParis · 1774Charles Marie de La CondamineParis · 1774Gottlieb DaimlerParis · 1862Alfred SisleyParis · 1862Félicien RopsParis · 1862

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